Jurchen (in Chinese: Nüzhen (女真 in pinyin: nü3 zhen1)) refers to an ethnic group in Manchuria and northern Korea, and their language, writing system. The Jurchen later became the Manchus.
... the Indo-Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European[?] family. Nursitani languages, spoken in roughly what has become Afghanistan, are grouped with Vedic and Avestan.
The ...